The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 147

He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded.

Who acts: Boy, pink lining, brown spots · What happens: love, turn, fade · To what, where: Rabbit, whiskers

This is a sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, pink lining, brown spots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 loved	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 loved	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 whiskers	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 whiskers	nmod:poss
11	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loved	obj
12	off	off	ADV	_	11 whiskers	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turned	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lining	det
16	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lining	amod
17	lining	lining	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 ears	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ears	nmod:poss
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lining	nmod
21	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	parataxis
22	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turned	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 faded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 faded	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 spots	nmod:poss
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spots	amod
27	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 faded	nsubj
28	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turned	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	Boy	Rabbit	hard property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	love	past	Boy	Boy's whiskers		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whisker=Stimulus
3	turn	past	the pink lining to Boy's ears		grey property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	fade	past	Boy's brown spots			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Project Gutenberg book 11757 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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